Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2013 (First Talk). There is conventional truth which employs a sense of self: me, my life, and social responsibility. And there is liberating truth which looks at life as a stream of consciousness: mental

Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2013 (Second Talk). Questions are answered in regards to reading while on retreat as well as seeing the experiences we have as just experiences of the mind and not taking them personally.

Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2013 (Third Talk). We can use the metaphor of "listening to our experience" as a means of understanding how we are causing ourselves dukkha. This is especially the case with experiences of remembering the

Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2013 (Fourth Talk). A short talk on the practical aspects of sitting and walking meditation.

Ajahn VÄ«radhammo goes into more subtle explanations of the forces of becoming, non-becoming, and sensual desire.

Ajahn VÄ«radhammo offers a brief explanation of the Theravada Tradition and the purpose of Buddhist practice. He speaks about our preoccupation with the objects of the world, the objects of consciousness and shows how we can relate to the these objects by

Ajahn Viradhammo explains how to we can be both spiritual friends with others and with ourselves. By living with a group of spiritual friends or having a spiritual friend or partner in our lives, we learn how to be harmonious, how to not following our pre

In November, 2014, Ajahn Jayanto visited Tisarana and gave a Dhamma talk explaining how to cultivate awareness of experience as it is without trying to do anything at all.

Ajahn VÄ«radhammo gives a unique talk comparing and contrasting the transcendent with the imminent. He explores how we can receive our experiences without getting caught up in them.

These short recordings are from the 2012 Tisarana Residential Retreat. Almost all of them take place before a formal sitting meditation session. So you may enjoy playing these before one of your own sits at home.